Past Reports

Summary Cape Town Grasses were low. Low tree concentrations include cypress (Cupressaceae), Australian pine (Casuarina) and pine(Pinaceae). Weeds were mugwort (Artemisia), iris (Iridaceae) and erica (Ericaceae). moulds were low. Johannesburg...

Summary Several sites could not process their pollen samples or couriered samples did not reach the laboratories in time for analysis due to the two public holidays this week. Cape...

Summary: The public holiday delayed the delivery of couriered pollen strips to the laboratory. Pollen is disappearing from the air, but moulds are increasing. Cape Town Tree, weed and grass...

Summary Moderate grass concentrations were seen in Kimberley, Bloemfontein and Vanderbijlpark. Weeds were moderate only in Johannesburg and tree pollen in the atmosphere is scant. Cape Town Pollen in the...

Summary Grasses were high in Kimberley, but low at all the other sites. Tree and weed pollen is disappearing from the air, while moulds are increasing at the inland sites....

Summary Grasses are moderate at the inland sites but are low at the coastal sites. Trees and weeds are low everywhere. Moulds are increasing at some sites and are high...

Summary Grasses are high in Kimberley, where many degranulating grass grains were seen releasing respirable starch granules. Grasses and moulds were high in Vanderbijlpark. Moulds are increasing at several sites...

Summary Grasses in the summer rainfall areas are decreasing except for Kimberley, where grasses continue their upward trend. Weeds and trees are low at all sites. Cape Town Low grasses,...

Summary Significant grass concentrations were seen at all the inland sites. Trees and weeds have waned and moulds were low at all sites except Vandebijlpark, south of Johannesburg. Cape Town...

Summary Grass is peaking in Kimberley and significant grass concentrations are also seen in Johannesburg, Vanderbijlpark, Pretoria and Bloemfontein. A late tree peak was seen in contributions from a variety...

Summary The high grass concentrations continued this week at the inland sites and moulds were high in Durban. Cape Town: All concentrations are generally low during this late summer period...

Summary Grass pollen is peaking at most of the inland sites. Tree and weed concentrations are low at all sampling sites and moulds are high in Durban. Cape Town Grass,...

Summary Significant grass concentrations continue at the inland site. Trees are uniformly low, Weeds are low, but varied and ragweed was detected in Durban. Cape Town Grass, tree and weed...

Summary Grasses are moderate to high at inland sites with summer rainfall. Cape Town Tree, grass and weed concentrations were insignificant. Trees included pine (Pinaceae), monkey puzzle (Araucariaceae), karee (Rhus/Searsia)...

Summary The significant grass concentrations at summer rainfall, inland sites continued this week. No peaks were seen for trees, but a short sharp increase in sedge grass was seen at...

Summary Moderate to high grass counts were detected in the inland, summer rainfall cities of Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Kimberley. Elm trees are flowering and significant counts...

Summary Many sites only restarted their spore traps this week, so no findings are available, Archived pollen counts from this week in January for previous years have been used where...

The website will be paused until mid-January. Grasses are likely to increase in summer rainfall inland cities. Ragweed has started its flowering cycle in Durban and may increase. Summary The...

Summary Grasses are now moderate in Vanderbijlpark (a city south of Johannesburg), Kimberley and Pretoria. Trees, weeds and moulds were flat at all sites. Cape Town At this time of...

Summary Grasses are increasing in Kimberley, trees are low at all sites except Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg and weeds and moulds were detected in low concentrations at all sites. Cape...

Summary Tree pollen is slowly disappearing from the air this year. The dominant tree at many sites is now gum, while plantain, or ribwort is the dominant weed. Cape Town...

Summary Grasses were low at all sampling sites. Tree pollen is still moderate in some inland cities such as Bloemfontein and Johannesburg. Cape Town Pollen was generally low but grasses...

Summary The tree counts are still moderate at some sites and the dominant trees are olive and pecan. Weeds are increasing and plantain is the dominant weed especially in Cape...

Summary Means are given for some sites as aerobiologists are at a workshop. Tree pollen is no longer significant, grasses are moderate in Kimberley and Cape Town and weeds remain...